Re: References? (was Re: Global Warming)

[Nathaniel Davis <haphaestus@EARTHLINK.NET>]

on 4/4/2001 1:29 PM, Jim Green at JMGreen@SISNA.COM wrote:

> > I'm pretty confident that the Globe will survive the next few
> > warming/cooling cycles.
> >
> > It's the various organism ON the globe that will have to adapt.
>
> 0You are likely quite right.  But I do not see compelling evidence that we
> humans can do much about this.  Glacial periods have been occurring for a
> whole bunch of years -- since long before humankind.
>
> But even on the short term -- a period of a century or two -- could someone
> please say what the _net_ worldwide harm would be from any competently
> projected so called global warming.  OK maybe the people of Bangladesh and
> Miami (It is hard to tell the difference) would get ticked, but the people
> of Siberia and Canada (Its hard to tell the difference) would be delighted.
>
> The net grief might be <0.
>
> The main question here is "What should we physicists do about this issue?"
>
> Anything?
>
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen

Another self-regulating effect Gaia may have is this:  as the Earth warms,
glaciers will melt.  Whatsmore, substances tend to expand with an increase
in temperature.  This means GLOBALLY water levels will rise, washing-out
cities on the coast.  Given that many of the major metropli (What's the
plural of 'metropolis'?) lie on coastal waters, these cities will be
submerged, causing less pollution, flooding will cause loss of viable
cropland, the world's population will plummmet, and a new equilibrium will
ensue.

Just a though...

nate.

--
Nathaniel Wayne Davis
Physics Teacher
Mountain View High School
haphaestus@earthlink.net